Japanese game maker Nintendo on late Wednesday announced new interactive cardboard accessories for its Switch consoles. The line of accessories, called Nintendo Labo, contain modular cardboard sheets that can be folded into a variety of playthings — such as motorbikes, fishing rods, pianos, houses or robots. The Japanese gaming giant deems those creations “Toy-Cons.” Players […]
Read moreEuropean markets are set to open slightly higher on Thursday morning, with investor sentiment buoyed by a rally on Wall Street overnight. The FTSE 100 is expected to open little changed at 7,715; while the German DAX is seen up by 50 points at 13,218 and the CAC 40 is set to open 15 points […]
Read moreAlphabet’s Google, Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings and Chinese online platform Meituan-Dianping are investing in a fundraising round of Indonesian ride-hailingstart-up Go-Jek, sources familiar with the matter said. Go-Jek’s existing investors such as global private equity firms KKR & Co and Warburg Pincus are also participating in the funding round of Go-Jek, which is raising […]
Read moreThreats of a potential cryptocurrency trading ban in South Korea have scared many investors away, but some veterans of the young market are defiant, saying restrictions would be relatively easy to circumvent. Although the cryptocurrency market lost about $200 billion this week, or a third of its value, these investors – known within the community […]
Read moreU.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson accused Russia on Wednesday of not implementing all United Nations sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear weapons program and said Moscow “may be frustrating” some of the steps. Tillerson told reporters the Russian failure to comply with the U.N. measures “primarily” concerned fuel “but some other areas potentially […]
Read moreChina’s cross-border capital flows reached a turning point last year as they became basically balanced compared to previous net outflows, the foreign exchange regulator said on Thursday. Cross-border capital flows will remain largely steady in 2018 as the impact from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s policy normalization on capital flows in China is weakening, Wang Chunying, […]
Read moreRights and democracy advocates are calling attention to Facebook’s role in spreading misinformation again — this time in the Philippines. The social media giant’s hosting of inaccurate stories that support strongman President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration has been newly spotlighted after Manila moved to shut down a local news site that had been the victim of […]
Read moreSingapore’s government is hiring social media users to promote its 2018 budget, local newspaper The Straits Times reported on Wednesday. Hoping to generate youth interest in state finances, the island nation’s Ministry of Finance paid more than 50 Instagram users — most of whom boast over 1,000 followers — to post on the annual economic […]
Read moreChina’s economic growth likely slowed a tick last year as authorities cracked down on both debt-heavy and pollution-causing industries. The Chinese economy is forecast to have grown 6.7 percent in the fourth quarter from the same period a year ago, and slightly lower than the 6.8 percent in the third quarter, according to a poll […]
Read moreDo not expect U.S. President Donald Trump to hit the gym, despite his doctor’s orders. He gets plenty of exercise on the golf course and at the White House complex, the president told Reuters on Wednesday. “I get exercise. I mean I walk, I this, I that,” Trump, 71, said during an Oval Office interview. […]
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